The article deals with landscapecharacter assessment using the example of the Jeseník area. Significant landscape features were identified and described and their interactions discovered. The landscapecharacter type of the study area
was identified by combination of significant landscape characteristics. Areas of this landscapecharacter type in the geomorphological unit Jesenická podsoustava subsystem were mapped. - (EN)
The landscapecharacter has become a topical issue in many European countries as well as in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia in the 90s. Since that period a lot of scientists and experts of various disciplines have been solving problems
of the landscapecharacter, the question of its terminology and evaluation. The article is based on results of a master thesis, which deals with preventive landscapecharacter assessment (LCA ). Proposed methodology of LCA was applied in the southwestern part
LandscapeCharacter Assessment as an Approach to Understanding Public Interests within the European Landscape Convention
England ; Landscape ; Perception ; Scotland ; United Kingdom
of landscape as a perceived entity has been taken up within LandscapeCharacter Assessment (LCA), an approach applied in England and Scotland for implementing the ELC. Based on a conceptual framework grounded in perception as a phenomenological experience
The European Landscape Convention's (ELC) definition of landscape, “an area, as perceived by people…”, places the public central to any understanding of landscape. This paper argues for ‘just’ involvement of the public and looks at how the focus
of landscape and informed by principles of participation, LCAs from 2007 to 2011 have been assessed as to how public involvement has been considered. The results show that only a quarter of all assessments accessed involved the public, and that among
on spatial characterisation of the landscape. It aims at supplementing conventional landscape descriptive parameters of biological importance, which are derived from a range of empirical data, with a spatial characterization. The method is implemented
This paper sketches out a method for a quantitative description of landscape structure, which can be used for biologically optimal landscape management. The approach suggested is based on a landscape ecological framework and emphasis is laid
in a vector-based GIS (ArcView) and allows quantification of landscape structure in different landscape types. Suggestions to further development of the method are discussed.
A Tolnai-dombsag tajfoldrajza. (Landscape geography of Tolna Hills)
Geological composition, paleogeographical development history of the landscape, geomorphological character of the small landscapes together with the climate, hydrology, natural vegetation and soil. (CK).
Complex multi-layer vegetation map as the basis for detailed geobotanical regionalization and characterization of the spatial structure of landscape (a case study from the Vistula River Valley, Poland)
Biodiversity ; Habitat ; Land use ; Landscape ; Landscape unit ; Poland ; Valley ; Vegetation ; Vegetation map ; Wisła
an actual and potential vegetation, as well as land-use were analyzed; the analysis being performed for an area of ca. 540 km2 of the Vistula River valley. The spatial structure of these microlandscapes was characterized in terms of various landscape metrics
. The analysis reveals that comprehensive treatment allows micro-landscapes to be aggregated into typological (and potentially regional) units of a higher rank.
Cultural landscape ; Czech Republic ; Europe ; Landscape ; Typology
The main goal of this paper is to introduce the importance of landscape typology in present times. Different approaches to landscape typology in Czechia and other European countries as well as relations of landscape typology to landscapecharacter
assessment and the European Landscape Convention are discussed. - (EN)
Agricultural region ; California ; Cultural landscape ; Landscape esthetics ; Rural area ; Rural landscape ; United States
The Central Valley, California's richest agricultural region, does not correspond to romantic pastoral ideals perpetuated by American high culture. The A. describes its special character as photographers have seen it and finds in its utilitarian
Festivals, landscapes, and aesthetic engagement : a phenomenological approach to four Norwegian festivals
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Esthetics ; Festival ; Norway ; Phenomenology
The article examines the relationship between festivals, landscapes, and aesthetics. Festivals are characterized by social, aesthetic, and symbolic value, as well as cohesion, joy, openness, expressive, play, and diversity, and that experience
The general role of earth surface as a part of landscape and environment is analysed and the basic types of anthropogenic transformations of relief are characterized. Some typical research of the environmental geomorphology in main types of cultural
and disturbed Czech landscapes are discussed. - (MS)
Exaktizace hodnoceni zmen krajiny. (The exact evaluation of changes of the landscape)
From data obtained form maps illustrating the land utilization in 1825 and 1978 in selected small areas of Bohemian and Moravia the author tries to state the exact proportion of landscape changes. There are five degrees in the scale of evaluation
and six grades of classification to characterize the equilibrium ot the region. (MS).
Cultural landscape ; Landscape unit ; Municipality ; Settlement ; Spatial organization
. Settlement organization within the system of settlements is the image and product of human activity in certain landscape, whereas character and number of municipalities are the image and product of spatial organization of society. - (EN)
Settlement and municipality are fundamental terms in geography of settlements, which are often identified or interchanged. A settlement is an inseparable part of cultural landscape and a landscape unit with certain physionomy in particular
Management of cultural landscapes : what does this mean in the former Soviet Union ? A case study from Latvia
Cultural landscape ; Land use ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Latvia ; Nature conservation ; Rural area ; Rural parish
pagasts had experienced significant landscape change during the Soviet times that replaced the pre-Soviet character with a new ‘ideological landscape’.
In countries of the former Soviet Union the landscape underwent many changes as a result of agricultural collectivisation and its aftermath. This situation has been analysed for six sample rural municipalities (pagasts) in Latvia. All sampled
Post-industrial landscape – return to rural affairs ?
Cartographic display ; Cultural landscape ; Geographical information system ; Industrialization ; Land use ; Landscape ; Post-industrialization ; Scenario ; Typology
The post-industrial landscape is the legacy of the period of industrialization. Industry has changed the landscape through active relief shapes, production, transport and residential facilities through changes in water regime, air quality and other
impacts of industrial activities. This paper aims to demonstrate the methods of identification, classification and post-industrial landscape typology on a topical level. A specifically constructed land use map, a regular square grid and GIS technology were
implemented for this purpose. The representation ratio of relevant buildings and areas in squares determines the degree of a given area’s postindustrial character. One-, two-, three- or four-word denomination are then used to classify the post-industrial
landscape type. The most possibly varied areas are ideal for modelling scenarios of future development. – (BJ)
Climate related landscapes in world mountains : criteria and map
A variety of criteria are suggested here by which to divide world mountain landscapes into morphoclimatic types. A preliminary map has then been drawn to locate as nearly as is now practicable the various regions of each landscape type. Height
of timberline and the number and character of altitudinal vegetation zones are useful criteria, as are the amount and seasonality of moisture available to vegetation and to physiographic processes, including past and present glaciation. The circumstances under
Cultural geography ; Landscape ; Mental picture ; Oklahoma ; Perception ; Social psychology ; United States
Five prevailing images are said to characterize this political unit together with its inhabitants : legacy of the Dust Bowl and « Grapes of Wrath » poverty; cowboy ethos; football mania; landscapes dominated by the sky and violent weather
Krajinny vyzkum Dyjského prulomu. (The landscape research in the Dyje-river gap)
The article try to solve the space orientation of the area characterized by an increased diversity, in agreement with the ecological aspects, on the exemple of the Dyje-gap in the southeastern part of the Bohemian-Moravian Highland. The natural
Exposition of the character of 30 Vermont villages, whose buildings and open spaces form one of America's strongest rural images. Discussion of discordant elements in this cultural landscape. - (DWG)